Housing Agency Has Lease On Nike Manor

KENT

The Army has leased 32 houses at Nike Manor to the King County Housing Authority for homeless families and mental-health patients. The lease runs until September 1994.

No decision has been made, however, on what to do with one house that was destroyed and another that was damaged by arsonists last month. The fires are being investigated.

The housing authority will manage and maintain the 10 acres, which were developed in 1958 to house personnel assigned to local NIKE missile launcher and control sites.

The NIKE missile sites were dismantled in the 1960s, and Nike Manor has been vacant.

The South King County Multi-Service Center, Highline-West Seattle Mental Health Center and the St. Stephen Housing Association in conjunction with Catholic Community Services will provide the residents. The surplus military housing was made available to the homeless under the federal McKinney Act.

Representatives of the housing authority and the other agencies are meeting with local citizens to allay their concerns about use of the property.